to go b back to something. vail may actually have been right. remember that theonlytechnologythenis the wire. how many of them are you going to string? it's very expensive to string it. you're not going to string two down the street. there are economies of scale. and you will end up with one company buying out the other. schoumacher: how did the other side of the kingsbury commitment work? how effectively did the government regulate the phone company? , if you get on to that, the bell system got so big that regulation of the bell system became very difficult to do, extremely difficult. in a nutshell, i think that regulation failed at all times. schoumacher: this was the at&t we grew up with, the benevolent ma bell holding families together. and why are you crying? because joey said "i called just 'cause i love you, mom." schoumacher: but by the 1970s and '80s, not everybody thought that mother new best. what on earth are you crying for? have you seen our long distance bill? if your long distance bills are too much, call mci. sure, reach out and touch someone, just do it for a who